Re: [UC] letter in UC Review, Clark Park closure

[Anthony West]

Thank you, Ray, for underscoring my point. Citizen activism is a good 
thing, and not only as it applies to parks and their support groups, but 
to all public services citywide. The best way to care for your 
neighborhood Rec Center or District Health Center is to participate in 
its Neighborhood Advisory Committee. The best way to support the Walnut 
Street Library is to join Friends of the Walnut Street Library. The best 
way to help with your neighborhood school is to be active in its Home 
School Association. The best way to provide feedback on neighborhood 
policework is to work on its Advisory Committee.

In a city without any form of local government, of course, all local 
issues are interrelated with citywide issues. Most aspects of public 
service have citywide citizens activist groups. They too can be joined. 
One I am particularly impressed with at the moment is Philadelphia 
Students Union, a lobbying and organizing group of high-school students! 
(See my FB page.)

I'm not disparaging the work that can be done be lone wolves like 
yourself either. But Benjamin Franklin's advice to a free people who 
must deal with their sovereign on difficult issues remains sound today: 
"We must all hang together...."

-- Tony West


On 1/23/2010 11:59 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
the most revealing line from that article:

"The best way to have a say in Clark Park," said [Tony]
West, "is to become a member."


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